Sandhurst is well connected if you drive and badly connected if you don't. Hardly anyone takes the train to work. About half drive. Nearly four in ten work from home. The station is the least-used thing in town, apart from the bus.
Sandhurst has its own railway station on the North Downs Line, with Crowthorne, Blackwater, Camberley, Frimley and both Farnborough stations within reach. At the 2021 Census, about 1% of working residents took the train to work, and about 1% took the bus, despite 46 bus stops in and around the town. The rail line runs across the country, not into London, and people's commutes follow that.
The commute tells you the real story. About 38% of working residents worked from home, and roughly half drove, which leaves walking at about 5% and cycling at about 1%. About 58% of households own two or more cars, and only about 8% own none. The car here isn't a lifestyle choice. It's the plan.
The Department for Transport's journey-time statistics are modelled for the whole area, not measured from any particular front door. They put the nearest town centre about 12 minutes away by car, 22 minutes by public transport, 17 minutes by bike and 34 minutes on foot. That walk is long enough that nobody pops into town. People plan the trip.
The everyday trips are shorter. A GP is about 9 minutes by car, 15 by public transport or 17 on foot. A food shop is about 8 minutes' walk or 7 minutes' drive, which is one of the few errands in Sandhurst where leaving the car at home is a reasonable option. Getting to a hospital takes about 19 minutes by car and about 45 by public transport. Employment is about 15 minutes by car and 13 by public transport, and the cycle time is shorter still, at about 6 minutes. The public transport figures date from 2019, and services have been cut in many places since, so give them less weight than the car and walking times.
The buses are better than the bus-commuting figure suggests. Across the 30 stops with timetable data, each averages about 69 departures on a weekday and about four in the peak hour, and 97% have some service at weekends. That's a working service. Almost nobody uses it to get to work, which tells you more about where the jobs are than about the buses.
Broadband is Sandhurst's strongest link. Gigabit-capable broadband reaches about 96% of premises, ultrafast about 96% and superfast about 99%. For a town where so many people work from home, that's the connection that matters, and it holds up.
Mobile coverage is complete: every postcode gets 4G or 5G from at least one operator, and from all of them. Nobody in Sandhurst has to stand in the garden to make a phone call.
Road noise is the price of being a driving town. Virtually every postcode, a share that rounds to 100%, sits near road noise at or above 65 decibels, the level official noise mapping treats as significant, and the loudest band recorded reaches 75 decibels. That's an area-wide measure and doesn't say how loud any particular house will be. Check which side of the house faces the main road before you fall for the garden. No postcodes come near the same threshold for rail noise.
Electric car owners are poorly served. There are 2 public charge points in the area with 4 connectors between them, and none of them is rapid. Charging is something you do on your own drive overnight, not while you're doing the shopping.
In practice, the typical Sandhurst commute is a short drive or no journey at all. Anyone who needs a daily train into a city should look at the times from Sandhurst's own station first, because the town isn't set up for that commute.
Sandhurst is middling for connections: excellent for broadband and for driving, poor for anyone hoping to live without a car.